Culture

A brand-new Jewish ritual object inspires an innovative art exhibit

Artists create “Tzedek Boxes,” receptacles meant to hold a record of the ways people perform social justice throughout the year.

Jewish comedian Modi Rosenfeld, a mainstay for Orthodox audiences, is gay. So what?

“Being gay, you can keep Shabbos, you can keep kosher,” said Rosenfeld, who attends a Modern Orthodox synagogue in the East Village. “You can keep anything you want to do.”

Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ earns 7 Oscar nods, WWI epic with anti-Nazi past gets 9

Plus: Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Polley, Nan Goldin and Marilyn Monroe further this year’s Jewish-inflected slate.

Sundance documentary ‘Under G-d’ follows the Jewish legal fight for abortion rights after Roe

A London museum is seeking David Bowie’s dress for an exhibit on Jews in the UK fashion industry

Broadway stars to perform songs written during the Holocaust at Carnegie Hall

TV star Lisa Edelstein captures her Jewish family in a solo painting exhibit

This young American couple had Scotland’s first-ever queer Jewish wedding

A serial flasher crashed a live chat with Orthodox women. Now its influencer organizer is sleuthing him out.

Documentary explores the ‘Talmudic’ relationship between writer Robert Caro and his famous longtime editor

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